Re: on software updates

2015-02-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.02.2015 um 13:30 schrieb Matthew Miller: On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 06:03:45PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: update, not your broader one. I am happy to defer to those who've spent more time dealing with it than me - i.e. hughsie - when they say that, no, it isn't really 'safe' to update

Re: on software updates

2015-02-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Miller wrote: Here's a good example of problems with (the current approach for) online updates for Firefox: Flash plugin up to date but Firefox keeps telling me that I have the old version: http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/174210/2511 We do not care about Flash. It is not in

Re: on software updates

2015-02-05 Thread Tom Hughes
On 05/02/15 14:21, Casey Jao wrote: Ignoring the fact that Flash player is not updated by the system package manager, Flash player is an example of a non-leaf package whose updates could affect other applications. But in this case, it would seem much less disruptive to prompt the user to

Re: on software updates

2015-02-05 Thread Casey Jao
On 02/05/2015 04:30 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: Here's a good example of problems with (the current approach for) online updates for Firefox: Flash plugin up to date but Firefox keeps telling me that I have the old version: http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/174210/2511 Ignoring the

Re: on software updates

2015-02-05 Thread Casey Jao
On 02/04/2015 06:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 07:00 -0800, Casey Jao wrote: I understand where you are coming from and that a fedora user is likely to see frequent updates of lots of other packages anyway. But on slower moving distros where systems components rarely

Re: on software updates

2015-02-05 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 02/05/2015 08:25 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: The problem is that you also have to delete pluginreg.dat from the firefox profile directory, or firefox will continue to think you have the old flash installed even after you restart it. It's basically because the plugin is being updated by yum behind

Re: on software updates

2015-02-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 06:03:45PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: update, not your broader one. I am happy to defer to those who've spent more time dealing with it than me - i.e. hughsie - when they say that, no, it isn't really 'safe' to update your web browser online. (I'm equally happy to

RE: on software updates

2015-02-05 Thread John Florian
From: devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:devel- boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Kofler We do not care about Flash. It is not in Fedora. It is not even Free Software. It's not dead enough. Only when someone asks, Do you mean lack of clothing, memory card

Re: on software updates

2015-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 07:00 -0800, Casey Jao wrote: I understand where you are coming from and that a fedora user is likely to see frequent updates of lots of other packages anyway. But on slower moving distros where systems components rarely get more than security updates, browsers might

Re: on software updates

2015-02-04 Thread Casey Jao
I understand where you are coming from and that a fedora user is likely to see frequent updates of lots of other packages anyway. But on slower moving distros where systems components rarely get more than security updates, browsers might be one of the more frequently updated pieces of software.

Re: on software updates

2015-02-03 Thread Florian Weimer
On 02/03/2015 07:22 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 10:50 -0500, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On 31 January 2015 at 21:57, Casey Jao casey@gmail.com wrote: Are there any plans to let packages specify that they do not require a total system reboot to be updated? Yes, see

Re: on software updates

2015-02-03 Thread Florian Weimer
On 02/02/2015 04:50 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On 31 January 2015 at 21:57, Casey Jao casey@gmail.com wrote: Are there any plans to let packages specify that they do not require a total system reboot to be updated? Yes, see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps -- basically, you

Re: on software updates

2015-02-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 10:50 -0500, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On 31 January 2015 at 21:57, Casey Jao casey@gmail.com wrote: Are there any plans to let packages specify that they do not require a total system reboot to be updated? Yes, see

Re: on software updates

2015-02-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 05:28 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Richard Hughes wrote: Yes, see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps -- basically, you can't do updates of rpm-sourced system-wide app deployments without a reboot in a safe way. That's absolute nonsense. Updating had

Re: on software updates

2015-02-02 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 02/01/2015 04:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: lsof | grep DEL | grep /usr will show you processes you may conisder to restart (and not the needs-restarting command was never relieable here) dnf install dnf-plugin-tracer

Re: on software updates

2015-02-02 Thread Casey Jao
To clarify, I know that one can bypass the restart prompt by using dnf on the command line. But my concerns pertained to the average user, who is likely not familiar with the command line. And the average user when asked to restart for *everything* (such as a browser update) might grow

Re: on software updates

2015-02-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.02.2015 um 11:50 schrieb Miroslav Suchý: On 02/01/2015 04:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: lsof | grep DEL | grep /usr will show you processes you may conisder to restart (and not the needs-restarting command was never relieable here) dnf install dnf-plugin-tracer

Re: on software updates

2015-02-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Hughes wrote: Yes, see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps -- basically, you can't do updates of rpm-sourced system-wide app deployments without a reboot in a safe way. That's absolute nonsense. Updating had always worked that way before you changed to offline updates. It

Re: on software updates

2015-02-02 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On 31 January 2015 at 21:57, Casey Jao casey@gmail.com wrote: Are there any plans to let packages specify that they do not require a total system reboot to be updated? Yes, see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps -- basically, you can't do updates of rpm-sourced

Re: on software updates

2015-02-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On 31 January 2015 at 21:57, Casey Jao casey@gmail.com wrote: Are there any plans to let packages specify that they do not require a total system reboot to be updated? Yes, see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps -- basically, you can't do updates of rpm-sourced system-wide app

Re: on software updates

2015-01-31 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 31.01.2015 um 22:57 schrieb Casey Jao: Warning: long post ahead. Are there any plans to let packages specify that they do not require a total system reboot to be updated? The other day, Gnome software prompted me to reboot just to update google chrome. Given that nothing depends on chrome,